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When Al Gore lost I wept. ( I really did ) and swore my head was going to stay under that perverbial pillow until 'you know who' is out of office.
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I can totally relate to that y'know. In 1992, in the depths of a deep recession, with unemployment figures going through the roof and Conservative politicians showing absolute lack of any kind of compassion for the newly unemployed (often whole towns died as their industry collapsed); with long roads filled with ForSale signs, and shops gone out of business, it was looking like a Labour win right up til the bitter end.
Only as the exit polls started to come in did it become clear that somehow, despite how badly they'd hurt the country, despite how broken our economy was and how battered our sense of national identity....Conservatives had won again.
Put me off politics for a good couple of years that. Just didn't want to know. Even in '97 when evervybody was predicting a Labour win, I didn't believe it. Was absolutely convinced the country would vote the bastards back in again when it came to the crunch. Total shock when Labour won by a landslide.